Crayon Resist

I have been trying my hand at crayon resist cards this week. It was a great technique to play around with.

I made this card using Old Olive and Lovely Lilac card stock. I used a variety of stamps and sponged using Pink Passion, Old Olive and Lovely Lilac inks.

I have stamped a sentiment from the Hostess Gift Set - Best Yet, and punched out a circle using the 1 3/8 " circle punch and the scallop circle punch.

Xmas Flip Album

While surfing the net one day I came across this wonderful Xmas Flip Album. It has been made out of 1/2 of the Simply Scrappin' I Wish pack.

It was certainly a wonderful project to work on, but it did take a few hours to make.

This project will make a wonderful gift for someone. There are spaces to add your own photos or let the lucky gift holder add their own.

I would love to work on another flip album and use another of the Simply Scrappin' kits. There are a few there would like to choose but which one first.

The wee album is full of surprises. The pages seem to keep on coming. Above is an aerial view to show you where the pages are placed.

Nic Howard Canvas Workshop

Yesterday I went to a workshop organised by Rachel Forrester.

The workshop was run by Nic Howard. We decorated a canvas with gesso and tissue paper and layered many colours of distressed inks to achieve our desired effect and spritzed with glimmer mist.

We stamped a variety of stamps and added layers and embellishments to achieve our finished product.

What an awesome class, it is such a pleasure to be able to attend a class run by such an inspirational person. Nic is such a talented lady with a world of knowledge.

Birthdays almost over

Well its been a busy week and the birthdays are still not over!!

My mum had her 70th last week and we had a lovely day with friends and family. It is always great to catch up with everyone and have a lovely day celebrating with people. Mum had a wonderful day and all went well.

This weekend my dad is having a birthday.. Camping is in our blood and mum and dad still head away in the caravan so this card is quite appropriate for him. The caravan stamp is from my pre stamp'n up stash but I have put it with the Loads of love set.

I inked it up with a variety of Stamp'n Up inks and put a little sentiment in the corner punched with our oval punch and oval scallop punch.

I decorated the inside of the card with ink and a grass template, which I cut out of card and stamped some trees and bugs.

I have also been working on little handbags made out of square bottom paper bags.

A really quick and easy gift to make for someone special or for a childs goodie bag.

I bought some 5" paper bags from the stationary shop and cut them down to the desired size and then covered them in assorted card and papers.

Quite effective.

Happy Birthday Mum

My dear mum is celebrating her 70th birthday next week. I made a card for her using the retired Parisian Breeze Designer Paper Series, chocolate chip card stock and chocolate chip ribbon. I have used a stamp from my stamp collection and painted it using a selection of Stamp'n Up inks. I am pleased with the finished result.

I also made a couple of gift box ideas.

I made a basket to put some wee goodies into. This was made from a 6 inch square of cardstock. I found the instructions on Josee Smuck's blog http://josee@stampingio.com. The title was Basket of Goodies. This was a really simple basket to make and a really easy one to make any size you want.

I also made a wee box with acetate slider cover.

All I need to do now is fill these with wee treats for mum and hope she has a wonderful day.

Seeing Spots

Happy New Year to you all.

I hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year.

Time has just slipped by, it is hard to believe Christmas has come and gone. I am relieved it is all over as the Christmas period is such a busy time at work for Bruce and myself.

We had my husbands Aunty staying with us about 4 weeks over the Christmas break. I introduced May to card making a couple of years ago and it was great having her back with us again and being able to spend time together making cards.

We both bought the stamp set "Seeing Spots" and then proceeded to sit down and come up with some different variations with the set.

For the first card I stamped randomly with Basic Black ink on Whisper White card stock and layered it onto Basis Black card. I then decorated it with black ribbon and punched using the 1 3/8 " circle and scallop circle punch. The black and white card was so simple but yet really effective.

The next card was using Old Olive and Chocolate chip ink on Whisper White card stock. I adhered the white onto Chocolate Chip card then mounted it onto Old Olive card and decorated with chocolate chip ribbon.

"Seeing Spots" stamp set is a simple design stamp set but achieves such great effective results.

Christmas Scrapbook Pages

These cold, rainy days sure give you a good excuse to sit down and catch up on the long list of unfinished projects. I have really enjoyed sitting down looking through my pile of photos that are yet to scrap. I found some lovely Christmas photos and produced these lovely pages.

I just love all the range of Christmas papers. For this page I used a

selection of papers. The striped paper is from the Simply Srappin papers, and the red and green papers were from the Spring Mini Catalogue - the Ski Slope Designer Paper series. I mounted the photo and did the journalling on Going Grey card stock and the holly was made from Old Olive and Real Red card stock. I just love the way all the different set of papers all co-ordinate.

The next page that I completed was with some photos of a School Performance that Ashleigh participated in.

I again used the Ski Slope Designer Paper Series.

I mounted the photos on Basic Black textured card stock and the journalling was on Whisper White.

The bauble was from the I Wish Simply Scrappin' set and I used a Red Rhinestone brad to go in the top of the bauble.

I like the effect that the aqua painter had, by wetting and rolling the edges of the paper.

this was a nice page layout to display a few photos on.

Christmas is fast approaching and I quess in no time I will have another lot of Christmas photos to work on.